1.  Homeland Security Expert and Vice President of Government Relations and Marketing at
Sutherland Global Services.
Chuck Brooks
Charles (Chuck) Brooks serves as the Vice President for Government Relations & Marketing
for Sutherland Global Services. Chuck leads Federal and State & Local Government relations
activities. He is also responsible for the Marketing portfolio (Media, PR, Digital Outreach,
Thought Leadership, Strategic Partnering, Branding) for the Federal and State & Local
markets.
He is also assisting in finding prospects for M & A in the Federal space. Chuck has extensive
service in Senior Executive Management, Marketing, Government Relations, and Business
Development and worked in those capacities for three large public corporations. In
government, he served at the Department of Homeland Security as the first Director of
Legislative Affairs for the Science & TechnologyDirectorate.He also spent six yearson Capitol
Hill as a Senior Advisor to the late Senator Arlen Specter where he covered foreign affairs,
business, and technology issues. In academia, Chuck was an Adjunct Faculty Member at
Johns Hopkins University where he taught graduate level students about homeland security
and Congress. He has an MA in International relations from the University of Chicago, and a
BA in Political Science from DePauw University, and a Certificate in International Law from
The Hague. Chuck is widely published on the subjects of innovation, public/private
partnerships, emerging technologies, and issues of homeland security and cybersecurity.

2. This year’s Counter Terrorist Magazine annual Homeland Security Professionals
conference on November 3 and 4th 2015 will celebrate its first decade. This will be a highly
publicized event throughout the country and abroad.